by Johnny Ryan. Especially the early histories parts are informative and fun to read. Not that later parts are worse, just that there is a flood of information for the very recent periods and too much reading I do. So I am sort of familiar. For beginners, this should be one of the must-reads.

This is one of early freely distributed books on the very history of early internet underground. It is like a novel but with a very thick description. Julian Assange had a touch on the book. A must read I would say..